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What’s New?
January 2002 — Happy New Year to All! The American Museum of Photography is pleased to open a second gallery of lyrical black-and-white images by Shotaro Shimomura. Since its online opening nearly four years ago, “An Eye for the World” has been among our most popular exhibits. The new addition doubles the number of images on view from this remarkable collection.
You’ll also find other updates scattered throughout the site, including a new image in the third gallery of “Masterworks.”
December 2001– Spirit photographs from the Museum ‘s affiliated collection are published in The Independent (London) on Sunday Review (Dec. 23 issue, with text by Matthew Sweet) ; another appears on the cover of the December 22-29 issue of the British Medical Journal. And you’ll see a different image from our spirit photography exhibit, “Do You Believe?” on the cover of a new book from Cornell University Press, “Ghostwriting Modernism.”
May 2001– The Museum presents SCOTT MUTTER: A MORE PERFECT WORLD. We’ve known and enjoyed Scott’s photomontage works for more than 25 years, and are very pleased that the photographer has chosen our site for the only authorized exhibition of his images on the Internet. For this exhibit, we have added special message boards to encourage visitors to share their thoughts. And we’ve arranged with Scott Mutter to offer individually artist-signed posters of his most popular images.
The Museum thanks MuseumSpot for featuring our site recently, and WebFeet Guides for giving us their “Web Feet Seal of Approval.” Thanks also to U.K. Plus, Britain’s top internet search directory, for a recent “Site of the Day Award.”
February 2001 — “THE FACE OF SLAVERY & Other Early Images of African Americans” opens. This selection of rare images offers glimpses into half a century of history, and helps to document changing cultural perspectives on African Americans.
January 2001 –The American Museum of Photography is proud to receive Four Stars from iReview, the internet guide on Apple computer’s website. And we’re very pleased to have been chosen as a Pick of the Year by Yahoo! Asia.
October 20, 2000 through November 15 — We’re pleased to be participating in the exhibition “AMERICAN REFLECTIONS: PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR” — more than 200 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes on view at Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Michigan.
October 15 — The American Museum of Photography invites you to visit our newest exhibition, “Do You Believe?” — three galleries of spirit photography. Part of “Special Effects,” our ongoing examination of manipulated photography, this exhibition features rare (and sometimes “hauntingly” beautiful) photographs of ghosts and spiritualist mediums. Researchers from New Zealand, Canada, England, Belgium and the United States contributed to this project.
June 2000–The Museum marks its fourth anniversary online with a new exhibition: “Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?” It’s the first installment of our exhibit series devoted to “Special Effects.”
May 2000– Have a web page? Please link to us! You’re welcome to use our logo in connection with the link. No web page? How about suggesting a link to a public library or school that has one?
January 2000– The American Museum of Photography starts the new millennium with the “Best of the Best” Award from Access, the largest-circulation Internet magazine.
December 1999– “Photography as a Fine ARF!” opens.
August 1999–“The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes” opens.
3/29/99 The American Museum of Photography is proud to announce its selection as a “World Best Website” Gold Award winner.
2/12–2/18/99 The American Museum of Photography is featured on c|net’s TV.COM , broadcast nationally.
1/4/99 The American Museum of Photography is selected as a Yahoo! Pick of the Year! Thanks, Yahoo!
What’s Next?More exhibits are in preparation on the theme of “Special Effects,” a look at the origins of manipulated photography. Exhibitions already online from this project include “Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?” and “Do You Believe?”
Our plans also include exhibitions on:
- The Platinum Prints of Edwin Hale Lincoln
- Cyanotypes: Images from Photography’s Blue Period
What do you think? Let us hear your ideas and suggestions— click here for eMail.
Sponsorship Opportunities
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The American Museum of Photography has been honored with these awards:
( Our third USA Today Hot Site Award, February 2001)
Yahoo! Asia Pick of the Year (2001)
Internet Medaille d’Or (2000)
Yahoo! Pick of the Year (1999)
“Best of the Best” from ACCESS Magazine
World Best Website Gold Award
About.com “Best of the Net”
(Best Rating) from Infoseek
(Top Rating) from ACCESS Internet Magazine (“Large, quick-loading images, great resources and clean design could almost make you forget that you’re visiting this museum online…”)
“Wonderful showing! This is a prime example of how the web can bring out interesting artifacts, seen by very few people, to the public at large.”
“Loved it (“Photography as a Fine ARF!”) And here I was – thinking that William Wegman was the only one out there pursuing this. But…..it was delightful then and Wegman’s work is delightful now. I suppose all us modern photographers do is really re-work ideas and inspirations. But that’s okay because we still have a voice! Many thanks for placing such charm on the www.”
“What a delightful museum…engrossing…an honorable example of the preservation of history.”
“WOW! I feel like I’m there, on the 57th Street, moving down the street, when I look at that photo [in “An Eye for the World”]– it is my favorite because it really draws me into the moment as a participant. Really good passages in books do this for me – I create the scene in my mind vividly. But only rarely does a photo have this strong an effect on me.
“That was absolutely wonderful ! Cheered me up for the day !”
“Thank you for putting together a fresh exhibition of historic architectural photographs [“Of Bricks & Light”]. As a professional architectural photographer specializing in historic resources, I have developed a sincere appreciation for the work of early documentarians… I stand in awe of some of these incredibly powerful messages from the past. I appreciate your efforts to curate this selection of fine photographs.”
“Very beautiful and informative site, a reminder of my travels, my own work, and what is yet to come. That is one of the great features of the internet, to be exposed to information and images you had no idea existed! Thanks, and I’ll be back.”
“A beautiful exhibit. As a photographer for the past 65 years (as a hobby!), I am happy to be pointed to this web site. Keep up the good pix! “
“After working day after day in the world of sterile modern stock and corporate photos it is such a delight to visit a site so filled with the joy of photography! More!”
Our thanks to everyone who visited… and to everyone who left a comment!
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